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> From: Terry Blanton <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 3:39:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:What's New
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> http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR11/Event/142304
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> Session V5: Physics for Everyone
> 8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Thursday, March 24, 2011
> Room: Ballroom C1
>
> Sponsoring Units: DMP DCMP
> Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego
> Abstract: V5.00002 : Voodoo Science
> 8:36 AM–9:12 AM
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> Author:
> Robert Park
> (American Physical Society)
>
>
> A remarkable scientific result that appears to violate natural law may
> portend a revolutionary advance in human knowledge. It is, however,
> more likely an experimental screw up. Error is normal; it can be
> reduced by repeating measurements and better design of controls, but
> the success and credibility of science is anchored in a culture of
> openness. Ideas and observations are freely exposed to independent
> testing and evaluation by others. What emerges is the book of nature.
> On its pages we find, if not a simple world, at least an orderly
> world, in which everything from the birth of stars to falling in love
> is governed by the same natural laws. These laws cannot be
> circumvented by any amount of piety or cleverness, they can be
> understood - with the possible exception of String Theory. For those
> who elect to work outside the scientific community, errors may go
> unrecognized. We will examine examples of this, including claims of
> perpetual motion and cancer caused by cell-phone radiation.
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> What! No CF!?!
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Park is slipping. Conservation of momentum says perpetual motion is natural.
He must mean claims of perpetual motion machines.
Harry
